Tibet's Secret Mountain
Bonington, Chris / Clarke, Charles For Chris Bonington and Charles Clarke, long-time friends and expedition partners, few mountains were more alluring than Sepu Kangri. Known locally as 'the Great White Snow God', Tibet's nearly 7, 000-metre mountain had never before been visited by Westerners. Armed only with a tourist map for reference, the two set off for this elusive peak in 1996.In the reconnaissance and two expeditions that followed, neither of them were expecting to be p...